Frontline

Season 1, Episode 11

Episode Title: Space - The Race for High Ground

Air Date: 1983-04-11

Overview:

Before President Reagan introduced Star Wars, Frontline examined how in the previous 25 years the US and the Soviet Union had gone from designing satellites to designing weapons to blast them out of the sky. The superpowers were converting space from an arena for communications, to a concept of space as 'high ground,' the battle area to control.